Abjection, Melancholia and Love

The Work of Julia Kristeva
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-75229-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature

This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis.

The essays in this volume offer insight into the workings of Kristeva’s thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature.

Kristeva’s persistent humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva’s entire oeuvre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, John

Benjamin, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Adolescent Novel 2. Art, Love and Melancholy in the Work of Julia Kristeva 3. The An-Arche of Psychotherapy 4. The Ethics of Sexual Difference 5. Female Temporality and the Future of Feminism 6. The Body of Signification 7. Geometry and Abjection 8. Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure: Kristeva with Hertz and de Man 9. Julia Kristeva: Theorizing the Avant-Garde? 10. Virginia Woolf: ‘Seen from a Foreign Land’ 11. Eliot’s Abjection

Über Autor(innen)

John Fletcher (University of Warwick, UK), Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)